# Changelog All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/), and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html). ## [Unreleased] ### Added - [tests] Add a testsuite - [core] Add `--version` (`-V`) command-line option - [borg] New config options: `cache_directory`, `sshoptions` (#11310), `ignore_missing` and `port` - [restic] Introduce new handler for the restic backup program - [sys] Add SystemD and EFI infos to sytem report (#11325) - [all] Added new config setting `ionicelevel` ### Changed - [core] Implement non-zero exit codes for main process (#8279) - [borg] Emit warning if borg returns exit code 1 instead of fail - [dup] Allow `bandwidthlimit` with `desturl` - [rsync] Change default ssh key file to RSA in `id_file` (#11315) - [project] Adopt Keep a Changelog format and convert old ChangeLog to markdown - [project] Moved project group from RiseupLabs to Liberate (#11314) ### Removed - [core] Support for vservers support has been completely removed - [rsync] Removed unused config parameter `ssh` (#4379) ### Fixed - [core] Fix issue with zero-padded integers in when setting (#9397) - [core] Fix incorrect warning related to day component in when setting - [borg] Fix connection test when empty remote directory exists - [borg] Properly quote create_options setting (#11304) - [borg] Raise fatal error if includes are missing - [dup] Test ssh connection when test mode enabled - [mysql] Fix helper writing incomplete config file (#11272) - [rsync] Fix initial directory creation in `mirror` and remote `short` modes - [sys] Fix LUKS version 2 header backup (#11316) - [sys] Fix dumping non-existent partition tables (#11293) - [sys] Fix error in rc.d info gathering on redhat/centos (##11294) - [sys] Fix error in sysctl info gathering ## [1.1.0] - 2018-06-29 ### backupninja changes - Add validation check for when parameter. (#640) Thanks to ulrich for the patch. - Quote output strings passed to logging functions (#11278). - Ignore files in /etc/backup.d that lack suffix. Thanks to David Gasaway for the patch. - Add Vagrantfile to help with testing/release process. ### documentation changes - Fix typos in README.md and manpages. Thank you, Lintian! - Improve release process documentation. ### handler changes #### borg - Add initial support for the borgbackup program. Thanks to Ben and Thomas Preissler for contributing patches. #### dup - Fix symmetric encryption. (#11274) Thanks to Matthijs Wensveen for the patch. - Bail if archive dir doesn't exist. (#11286) Thanks to Hugh Nowlan for the patch. #### sys - Use lsblk instead of sfdisk to get a list of block devices. (#11273) Thanks to Romain Dessort for the patch. - Avoid looking for partitions on zram devices. Thanks to Glandos for the patch. - Support extracting LUKS headers from partitions. Thanks to Lyz for the patch. ## [1.0.2] - 2017-09-05 ### handler changes #### dsync - Miscellaneous improvements to this experimental handler. #### dup - For local backups, check that the destination directory exists. Thanks to ulrich for the preliminary patch. (#4049) - Gracefully handle legacy spaces between -o and IdentityFile. - Don't remove useful signature files with --extra-clean, on duplicity versions that have a sane handling of the cache. Thanks to Alexander Mette for the patch! (Closes: #6357) - Fix buggy version comparison. (#6746) - Support using a different passphrase for the signing key from the one used for the encryption key (Closes: DEBBUG-726072). Thanks to Dominik George for the patch! - Run duplicity in a C locales environment (Closes: DEBBUG-736280). Thanks to Jonathan Dupart for the report, and the initial patch! - Fix handling of Dropbox access token (Closes: #11260). #### mysql - Make "nodata" option compatible with compress=no. - Fix non-qualified table name extraction. (Closes: #4373) - Skip dumping information and performance\_schema databasase. (Closes: #11148) #### rdiff - Add option to include rdiff-backup output in reports. Thanks to David Gasaway for the patch! #### rsync - Solve quoting issue with "su". (Closes: DEBBUG-683731, #4019) - Update increment folder date to avoid ending up with contradictory information. (Closes: #3929) - Force rsync handler run bash at the remote destination. (Closes: #3003) - Support running in test mode (Closes: #8196). Thanks to shred for the initial patch. #### sys - Fix LUKS header backup to properly detect partitions. - Provide the ability to backup the MBR for every device found, and to backup the BIOS (if the flashrom program is installed, and the mainboard is supported). - Add suse to the list of supported OS (#7101). Thanks to Christian Prause for the patch. - Fix indentation. Thanks to Jools Wills for the patch. (Closes: #6802) - Exclude tmpfs filesystems from df output. (Closes: DEBBUG-745818) #### tar - Support test mode and xz compression. Thanks to Pierre ROUDIER for the patches. ### helper changes #### rdiff - Don't give misleading information regarding required fields. (#4410) - Support output\_as\_info. Thanks to David Gasaway for the patch! #### sys - Remove spurious quotes that broke the helper (Closes: #6803). Thanks to Jools Wills for the patch. ### backupninja changes - Indentation fixes, thanks to exobuzz. (#6726) - Ignore jobs whose filename ends with "~". Thanks to Mark Janssen for the patch. #### build system changes - Pass the "foreign" option to AM\_INIT\_AUTOMAKE: README has been renamed to README.md. ### documentation changes - Update INSTALL file to add some missing recommended programs. - Document release process. - Merge FAQ content from the Redmine wiki into the one shipped with backupninja. - README.md: reorganize, reformat, and point to the examples configuration files. - INSTALL.md: recommend using packages on Debian and derivatives. - bandwidthlimit for the dup handler needs to be given in KB/s, and not (as wrongly advertised previously) in Kbit/s. (Closes: #7603) ## [1.0.1] - 2012-06-29 ### handler changes #### rsync - Issue warnings, not fatal errors, on non-fatal rsync errors. (#3966) ## [1.0] - 2012-06-15 The "happy birthdays" release! ### handler changes #### mysql - Use --skip-events when backing up the performance_schema database. (Closes: DEBBUG-673572) #### rsync - Generate excludes command-line snippet the same way as the duplicity handler does. - Run rsync command-line through a shell, so that single-quotes around excludes are interpreted (Closes: DEBBUG-677410) #### sys - Don't execute /usr/bin/lspci or /sbin/modinfo when $hardware == "no" ### backupninja changes - Make it clear what lockfile could not be acquired, if any. # [1.0-rc1] - 2012-05-15 ### handler changes #### dup - Make the .dup generated by ninjahelper more consistent with example.dup. - Add support for RackSpace's CloudFiles. Thanks to Yuval Kogman for the patch. - Adapt for new duplicity SSH backend. Support bandwidthlimit with new duplicity, using trickle. (Closes: DEBBUG-657201) - Report failure output at error loglevel so that it is emailed (Closes: DEBBUG-536858) #### maildir - Remove 'loadlimit' parameter - it is not used anywhere. #### mysql - Don't attempt to dump performance_schema database (#3741). #### pgsql - Don't produce empty uncompressed backups (#3820). #### rdiff-backup - Use fatal function to report failure of rdiff-backup jobs as such. #### rysnc - Fix numericids option (#3691). - Mangle $rsync_options just afterwards (#3702, #3001). - Fix metadata rotation. - Allow disabling rotation or setting 2 days as minimum for backup increments in rsync short format (#2107). - Abort on rsync error (#3692). - Cleanup orphaned metadata (#3727). - Use the backup start time and not the time the backup was finished. (Closes: DEBBUG-654192). - Use 'debug', 'fatal' and 'warning' functions instead of regular echo and exit (#3840, #3721). - Quoting $starttime (#3868). - Validate created date on long_rotation to avoid too many arguments at comparison (#3868). - Quoting $exclude and $excludes and avoiding a for loop on $exclude to not expand wildcards in beforehand (#3882). - Quote excludes (#3882). - Changing remaining 'exit' to 'fatal' at rsync handler (#3721). - Removing duplicated locking support (#3838). - Documenting rotation parameters at example.rsync (#3891). - Ensure that a non-zero rsync exit status is caught (#3892). #### build system changes - Workaround automake sanity check that would prevent us from installing lib/\* into lib/backupninja/. Where else are be supposed to install such files anyway? - Have "make dist" ship handlers/\*.in instead of make results. - Have "make dist" ship the FAQ. - Install handlers as pkgdata_DATA, instead of their .in files. ### documentation changes - Document what features available to .sh jobs (Redmine #1558). ## [0.9.10] - 2011-09-23 ### backupninja changes - Fix email reports, that were broken by the new locking support. ### handler changes #### dup - Cleanup: stop supporting duplicity < 0.6.01 (#2538). - Fix incorrect duplicity version check for keepincroffulls. Thanks to Olivier Berger for the patch. (Closes #3443) (Closes: DEBBUG-641120) #### ldap - Don't install LDAP handler, helper and example configuration file. Don't mention LDAP support in documentation. Official LDAP support will come back once this code has found itself a maintainer. Interested? Get in touch! #### rsync - Fixing $rsync_options output when rsync is local (Closes #3001) (Closes: DEBBUG-639545) #### sh - Allow 'when = XXX' with spaces (#2769). Thanks to aihtdikh for the patch. #### sys - Remove useless and inconsistent executable bit on handler. ### helper changes #### rdiff - Fix infinite loop when version inconsistency is detected. Thanks to Chris Lamb for the patch. (Closes: DEBBUG-639547) ## [0.9.9] - 2011-05-15 ### backupninja changes - Use locking to avoid running concurrent instances of the same backup action. Thanks to Olivier Berger for the patch. (Closes: DEBBUG-511300) ### handler changes #### all handlers: - Stop using "local VAR" outside functions. (Closes: DEBBUG-530647) #### dup - Use --tempdir option rather than TMPDIR environment variable. (Closes Roundup bug #598) - Remove support for duplicity < 0.4.4. Even etch-backports has a newer one. - Now support remove-all-inc-but-n-full command for duplicity >= 0.9.10 to allow removal of increments for older full backups. Thanks to Olivier Berger for the patch. (Closes #2492) (Closes: DEBBUG-603478) #### ldap - Fix reliance on bash for pipefail. #### mysql - Fix reliance on bash for pipefail. Thanks to Sergio Talens-Oliag for the patch. (Closes: DEBBUG-602374) #### postgresql - Support various pg_dump formats in addition to pg_dumpall. Thanks to Jacob Anawalt for the patch. (Closes Roundup bug #2534) - Fix reliance on bash for pipefail. #### rdiff - Support reading include/exclude patterns from files using the "include @/etc/backup_includes" syntax (Closes Roundup bug #2370). Thanks to ale for the patch. #### rsync - Fix long rotation. - Make units clearer (Closes #2737) - Do arithmetic using bash rather than bc (Closes: DEBBUG-603173) #### sys - Fix hwinfo (Closes: DEBBUG-625501) - Fix gathering of information about loaded modules: cut is in /usr/bin actually. #### tar - Install by default. (Closes #2907) ### helper changes #### dup - Fix separate signing key usecase. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for the patch. - Make units clearer (Closes #2737) #### rdiff - Generate 4096 bits RSA keys. #### tar - Install by default. (Closes #2907) ### documentation changes - Recommend using 4096 bits RSA keys everywhere. ## [0.9.8.1] - 2010-10-31 ### backupninja changes - Do not error out when no job is configured. Thanks to Jordi Mallach for the patch (Closes: DEBBUG-597684) ### handler changes #### sys - Route around broken vgcfgbackup not able to handle multiple VG arguments ## [0.9.8] - 2010-09-12 ### backupninja changes - Added GZIP_OPTS option, defaulting to --rsyncable, so that this option can be disabled on systems that don't support it. This also allows to use another compression program, such as pbzip2 on SMP machines (Closes Roundup bug #2405) ### handler changes #### sys - Only run mdadm if RAID devices actually exist (Closes: DEBBUG-572450) #### dup - Now default to use --full-if-older-than; see the new "increments" option to opt-out or tweak the default (30D) delay between full backups. Thanks a lot to Olivier Berger (Closes: DEBBUG-535996) - Use duplicity's --extra-clean option to get rid of unnecessary old cache files when cleaning up. This is enabled when using duplicity 0.6.01 or newer, that depends on local caching (Closes: DEBBUG-572721) - Ignore anything but digits and "." when comparing versions (Closes: DEBBUG-578987) - Put archive directory (cache) into /var/cache/backupninja/duplicity rather than the default /root/.cache/duplicity, unless the user has specified it (Closes: 580213) - Better example.dup documentation. Thanks, Alster! - Added ftp_password option to securely transmit the FTP password from backupninja to duplicity. #### mysql - Don't lock tables in the information_schema database (Closes: DEBBUG-587011) - Fix code logic to make dbusername/dbpassword actually usable (Closes Redmine bug #2264) #### rsync - Fix lockfile checks. This prevents multiple instances of the same rsync job to run in parallel. - Avoid passing the remote user twice to rsync-over-ssh. ### doc changes #### manpage - Fix typo in manpage (Closes: DEBBUG-583778) #### ldap - Add ssl option description, fix tls option description (Closes Roundup bug #2407) ## [0.9.7] - 2010-01-27 ### backupninja changes - fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite - do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: DEBBUG-465837) - add 'when = manual' option, that can be used in the global config file or in a given backup action file. Thanks Tuomas Jormola for the preliminary patch (Closes: DEBBUG-511299) - new reportinfo option: when set, messages sent by handlers with "info" are included in the report e-mail (closes DEBBUG-563734) - reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the local filesystem (Closes: DEBBUG-536049) - set BACKUPNINJA_DEBUG when invoked with -d (Closes: DEBBUG-537266) ### lib changes #### easydialog - Allow form fields input to grow up to 100 chars (Closes: DEBBUG-562249) ### handler changes #### ldap - Use gzip's --rsyncable option. - Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are reported as such. #### maildir - fix location of deleted_on file - add missing destid_file options to ssh connections - added sshoptions variable for arbitrary ssh options - updated example file to include destid_file, destport and sshoptions - use any subdirectories not just "a" to "z". Thanks Chris Nolan! (#606) #### mysql - Options passed to mysqldump are now customizable with the new sqldumpoptions configuration variable. Thanks to Chris Lamb for his preliminary patch (Closes: DEBBUG-502966) - Hide 'mysqladmin ping' output, to prevent confusing the user in case mysqld is running but the authentication fails, which apparently does not prevent mysqldump to work. - Fix the error message displayed when mysqld is not running: mysqladmin ping indeed returns 0 when authentication fails. - Use gzip's --rsyncable option. - Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in database names. - Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are reported as such. #### pgsql - Use gzip's --rsyncable option. - Quote output filenames to support shell meta-characters in database names. - Use bash pipefail option when needed so that failed dumps are reported as such. #### rdiff - Fix include/exclude paths with spaces (Closes: DEBBUG-398435) - Fix confusing error if rdiff-backup cannot be found on remote server. - Increased element number in include/exclude and vserver ninjahelper interface #### sys - New luksheaders option (default=disabled) to backup the Luks header of every Luks device. - New lvm option (default=disabled) to backup LVM metadata for every detected volume group. - Backup dmsetup info as well, for easier restoring of Luks headers. #### dup - Fixed bandwidthlimit syntax error. Thanks to Ian Beckwith for the patch. - Send duplicity output to debug line by line instead of as a whole at one time (Closes: DEBBUG-536360) - Report duplicity output as "info" so that it can be included in report e-mail when reportinfo is on (Closes: DEBBUG-563734) - Fix include/exclude paths with spaces - Support backups to Amazon S3 buckets, thanks to stefan for the patch. ### helper changes #### dup - Do not propose to exclude /home/\*/.gnupg twice anymore (Closes: DEBBUG-563044) ### autotools - Added the stat command to the automagically replaced ones, hoping it will help supporting \*BSD some day. ## [0.9.6] - 2008-07-21 ### backupninja changes - fix bug in cstream definition, thanks Jamie McClelland - Allow the entire backup run to be halted by an action, thanks to Matthew Palmer (Closes: DEBBUG-455836) - Fixed tr construct reporting a warning (Closes: DEBBUG-452669) ### lib changes #### vserver - added vservers_running function #### tools - mktemp is now required to run backupninja, removed less secure fall-back if mktemp did not exist on the system ### handler changes #### dup - General cleanup - Better support for new duplicity (>= 0.4.4) command line syntax: run remove-older-than when $keep is not set to yes (Closes: DEBBUG-458816), and run "duplicity cleanup" before any other duplicity command; both only trigger a warning on failure, since they should not stop backups from being done. Also migrated full/incremental backup switch to the new syntax. - Support every duplicity-supported transport with new configuration option desturl (Closes: DEBBUG-483712, DEBBUG-346040, Trac#2). - Actually allow to backup only VServers, by relaxing $include test. - Set secure permissions on tmpdir when creating it. #### ldap - support HDB backend just as the BDB one, and make message clearer when no supported backend is found (Closes: DEBBUG-476910) #### rdiff - Fixed ignore_version default value missing - Add patch from Matthew Palmer to rdiff handler to incorporate sshoptions into options via remote-schema not already specified (Closes: DEBBUG-424639) #### wget - New handler from rhatto designed to incrementally pull content from a website to a local folder, based on the rsync handler #### maildir - fixed bug where maildirs that start with a number were skipped - make maildir helper look in every subdirectory of the source directory for maildirs, rather than just looking in the directories [a-zA-Z0-9], thanks for the patch from chris@cenolan.com (Trac#43). - make deleted maildirs record the date they were deleted - add destid_file configuration option to enable you to specify an alternate ssh public key authentication file (defaulting to /root/.ssh/id_rsa) pgsql, mysql, svn, sys: - use new vservers_running function from lib/vserver (factorization++) #### sys - update for 2.6 kernels: use /proc/kallsyms instead of /proc/ksyms (Closes: Trac#39) - support selection of VServers to run on, in the same way as in the dup handler, with the new vsnames configuration option ; (Closes: Trac#45) - add support for capturing the package debconf selection states using debconf-get-selections - fixed catifexec function to actually work, also now passes the arguments given to catifexec() to the called command (Thanks John Hallam!) - Added more robust software RAID information capture by running mdadm -Q --detail /dev/md?\* because some people may have empty mdadm.conf files (Thanks to John Hallam). #### trac - stop failing on all the trac backups if just one fails, this means removing the temporary trac backup directories if they fail #### makecd - updated handler for new toolset (genisoimage and wodim) ## [0.9.5] - 2007-12-02 ### backupninja changes - Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch applied to fix DEBBUG-370396 broke this, especially for configuration files created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version. - Enhanced portability for other platforms - Added quoting because it was needed to prevent shell expansion, broking the toint function sometimes (Closes: Trac#11) - Fixed reportspace option (Closes: Trac#10) - Fixed ldap handler not recognizing database suffix (Closes: Trac#28) ### handler changes #### dup - Support duplicity >= 0.4.3 invocation syntax (--ssh-command option is not supported anymore) (Closes: DEBBUG-447425) - New tmpdir configuration option, very useful in case duplicity tends to fill up /tmp. #### ldap - Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed file (Closes: DEBBUG-394935) - Fixed ninjahelper to properly set compress option, standardized on yes/no instead of on/off - Fixed problem that caused combination of slapcat and compress to not work together (Closes: Trac#29) - Applied patch from romain.tartiere@healthgrid.org to fix the SSL/TLS options to be correct, also set TLS to be the default over SSL (Closes: Trac#13) #### maildir - Added an examples file (Closes: Trac#23) - Applied patch from Anarcat that fixes the cp/mkdir calls to not use GNU coreutils options, as well as some bashisms (Closes: Trac#24) - Fix test mode (Closes: Trac#25) #### mysql - Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: DEBBUG-402679) - Added 'nodata' option to enable you to specify tables that you want to omit the data from a backup, but still backup the table structure. This is very useful in cases where tables contain large amounts of cache data. See the example.mysql for options, thanks Daniel Bonniot (Closes: DEBBUG-408829) - Enhance code for selecting databases by asking MySQL not to give us the header (-N), to not draw pretty boxes around the output (-B), send the query via -e instead of a pipe and ensure MySQL listens to -B. Thanks to Matthew Palmer (Closes: DEBBUG-452039). #### pgsql - Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers (Closes: DEBBUG-396578) #### rdiff-backup - Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting - Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: DEBBUG-424633) - Add configuration option to allow you to disable the version check as in some instances this may be an ok scenario (Closes: DEBBUG-424632) - Added local destination support to helper (Closes: Trac#4) - Allow exclude-only configurations (Closes: Trac#21) #### rub/rsync - Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work - Changed to use lib/vserver code - Fixed fsck error - Fixed integer comparison (Closes: Trac#3) - Renamed handler to 'rsync', replaces outdated rub handler - updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include rsnap/rsync (Closes: DEBBUG-440554) - Added example.rsync configuration file #### sys - Fixed typo breaking things for VServers. - Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: DEBBUG-395928) - Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when it succeeds (Closes: DEBBUG-396632) - Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: DEBBUG-404071) - Fixed example in example.sys to detail the `__star__` in partitionsfile and note why its necessary (Closes: DEBBUG-409192) - Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep - Make directory where output is placed configurable, and create the parent dir if it doesn't exist (Closes: Trac#1) #### ninjareport - Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost, reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple #### other - fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed - changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am - updated redhat spec file (thanks Adam Monsen) ## [0.9.4] - 2006-10-06 ### backupninja changes - Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it to not work when run from cron. - Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: DEBBUG-361102) - Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before). Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: DEBBUG-370396). - When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows symlinks for $configdirectory - Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility - fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by coreutils (Closes: DEBBUG-382747) - Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin) ### handler changes #### Added tar handler - create tarballs #### Added rsnap handler - rotated rsync snapshops - code from paulv@bikkel.org #### Added rub handler - alternative to rsnap - code from rhatto@riseup.net #### mysql - Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: DEBBUG-351083) - Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit - Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check - Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy - Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: DEBBUG-370778) - Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto) #### pgsql - Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check - Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy - Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: DEBBUG-363297) - postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary - Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: DEBBUG-370778) - $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default) #### svn - Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check #### rdiff - Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude. Clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities between various readlink versions in this field. - Removed overzealous vsnames check - Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined. - add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the following to the top of the handler config: options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup --server' #### dup - Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude. Clarification globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities between various readlink versions in this field. - Removed over zealous vsnames check - Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without any passphrase - Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible sshoptions (Closes: DEBBUG-388543) - Now forbid to (try to) include /. #### sys - Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma) - Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl) - Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks Tom Hoover) - Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat) #### ldap - Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: DEBBUG-370778) #### makecd - Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto) #### trac - fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: DEBBUG-382737) ### lib changes #### vserver - init_vservers: fixed DEBBUG-351083 (improper readlink syntax) - found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character + - forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat ### ninjahelper changes - Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: DEBBUG-361102) - Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat - When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows symlinks for $configdirectory - Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current admingroup option. #### dup.helper - Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption. #### other - changed cron permissions to 644 - changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup) - minor documentation fixes - improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories, cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier) ## [0.9.3] - 2006-02-01 ### backupninja changes #### backupninja.conf - added (commented out) the various default paths to programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure out more easily they can customize them #### code refactor - now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support ### handler changes #### duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: - start to use (at different degrees) new lib/vserver functionality #### mysql - fixed no user defaults file processing #### duplicity - fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (DEBBUG-348022, follow-up to DEBBUG-338796) - warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is disabled in backupninja.conf - now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space) in vsnames config variable rdiff - fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options - it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the "vsnames" configuration setting ### ninjahelper changes #### rdiff.helper - fixed errors in create remote dir - code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent) - fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to have "include = " - fixed globbing bug with exclude #### ninjahelper - now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out. - code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent) ### lib changes #### vserver - init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection - init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability - init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al. don't follow symlinks) - init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found - new function: vservers_exist known bugs: #### easydialog - formDisplay does not return exit status. #### other - autotools fixes ## [0.9.2] - 2005-12-29 ### backupninja changes - fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems - backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers" #### code refactor: - moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between backupninja and ninjahelper ### handler changes #### trac - mkdir subdirectory problem fixed #### duplicity - globbing support fixed in include and exclude options - different signing and encrypting key support added - fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way GnuPG-related options are used #### mysql - handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced ### ninjahelper(s) changes - vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in - added man/ninjahelper.1 man page #### makecd - was missing in Makefile.am/.in #### rdiff-backup - used to expand '\*' in default source directories - the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour - updated to include Vserver selection #### pgsql - forbid the user to choose an empty database set - "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do #### mysql - enhanced for vserver support - now able to select databases and dump directory #### duplicity - new handler added (with Vserver support) ## [0.9.1] - 2005-11-05 - rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz) - fixed many bugs in rdiff helper - rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?) - added makecd ninjahelper (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net) - made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000 - changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian - update rdiff ninjahelper: now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory and offers to create it if it doesn't exist ## [0.9] - 2005-10-19 *IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE* - fixed insecure temporary file creation - removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler - fixed incorrect find positional - changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd. - rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org). - rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest. (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org). - man pages are greatly improved. ## [0.8] - 2005-09-15 - added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support. - added vservers support to duplicity handler Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff handler's one, but the default behavior is the same: have a look at example.dup. - improved README - documented .disabled method. - corrected VROOTDIR default value. - added ninjahelper to the install instructions. - improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory to be seen as a vserver - changes to sys handler make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info. fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver. fixed $nodpkg use. - changes to pgsql handler now checks if the specified vserver is running. now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed. now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver. - changes to ninjahelper check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts must not be group or world writable!" error msg). - xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor, then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists. - added helper for pgsql handler. - rdiff handler now does not require 'label' - changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support these handlers now check if the source vserver is running - added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr) ## [0.7] - 2005-07-26 - added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs. - considerably improved and changed the log file output. - you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method). - added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef). - fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options. ## [0.6] - 2005-06-16 - ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method is set to ldapsearch as this is safer - *NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler, you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.* - implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem) - added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff - changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!): "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost added "sign" option for backups signing added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections added "nicelevel" option added "testconnect" option added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp) added "bandwidthlimit" option - example.dup example config file for duplicity handler - added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!) - added configfile option to mysql handler the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this, sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does). - fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work. (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password) - can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler. ## [0.5] - 2005-04-12 - rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner - rdiff handler supports local dest - logfile is created if it doesn't exist - added "when = hourly" - added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler - fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order. - improved 'when' parsing. ## [0.4.4] - 2005-03-18 - results of handlers are now read line by line. - changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D'). - added dup handler (still pretty beta) - added maildir handler (very specialized handler) - added --run option (runs the specified action file) - improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo - added subversion hotbackup handler, svn. - added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors. ## [0.4.2] - 2005-01-06 - fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run. - fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored - added status in the subject line of report emails ## [0.4.1] - 2005-01-03 - added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed. - fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now. - replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal. - added --now option to force all actions to be performed now. ## [0.4] - 2004-12-26 - added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when they are to be run. - added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options - added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions). ## [0.3.4] - 2004-12-08 - fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc - fixed stderr redirect bug - some comments in example.rdiff ## [0.3.3] - 2004-11-10 - '\*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files - works now with gawk as well as mawk - many bug fixes to ldap handler - paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config - does not require /usr/bin/stat ## [0.3.2] - 2004-09-29 - handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy) - handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email ## [0.3.1] - 2004-09-05 - added ldap handler - moved sh support to a handler script - add test mode, where no action is taken. - added --help - force only root can read /etc/backup.d/\* - fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff - changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin ## [0.3] - 2004-10-20 - *IMPORTANT* all config files are now ini style, not apache style - rewrote all scripts in bash for portability - added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja) - all scripts are now run as root ## [0.2] - 2004-10-14 - move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d - fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!) - added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources. - added support for .mysql config files. ## [0.1] - 2004-10-08 - initial release